or how tons of american electronics are "Recycled!" over here only to be sent to overseas to be gutted of their gold and then tossed into asian landfills

not overtly trying to be a cycnic, i just work in the industry and i feel like a douche every time i tell someone about how we have a "no-landfill electronics recycling policy!" i mean its better than doing nothing, but still

TheJollyGreenGiant

Scott

Prosumerist

It involves a hairy four hundred pound man in nothing but overalls, a shopping spree for a pizzle, gold, the local electric utility and currency laws.

Hotchkiss, Colorado. We're on a determined birthday hunt for a gag gift, a walking stick made from a bull pizzle ... we heard of a fellow in Hotchkiss, CO made such things and sure enough, he was. Along with a replica of wicker throne-chairs made out of pizzles. Not something a sober man ought to see. He was the foulest mouthed man I've ever met, but somehow also outrageously funny at the same time. Clearly many of his nuts and bolts were coming loose. Living in a dirt-floored shack with mice and a pot bellied stove.

His half acre 'yard' was at least head-high in used and busted computer equipment, from which he was mining precious metals, gold mostly. He had little ingots of the stuff (quarter to dime sized) lying around he'd smelted. That day he was ticked off that the local electric utility was no longer allowed by law to accept gold in payment for his electric bill. Sitting under cottonwoods mining circuit boards for gold, breathing noxious fumes he was making enough to pay most of his bills, and that was in the days of $200 an ounce.

The pizzle business, however, was flaccid and never straigthened out.

BlackFlag55

doughboy921

Gary_7vn

ThatsMrOffDutyNinja

daftrok

Price data: [goldprice.org]

Calculation: [www.google.com]

Brian

Holy cow! If my memory serves me today: 150 grams is over 5 ounces (I think 27 grams in an ounce), and gold is somewhere near $900 an ounce. So, we're talking about $5,000.

EQC

Uber_lompocus

athingunique

takashimiike 3G edition

TheCapt